London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Adoption of children 62
Air pollution 38
Ambulance service 79
Analgesia 65
Ante natal sessions 64
Anthrax 17
Analysis of samples 30
Appendix 144
Audiometry 116
Bathing centres 104
Births 6
Blind persons 25
Bronchitis 8
Building materials examinations 35
Building programme 49
Cancer 9
Care of mothers and young children 54
Cerebral hemorrhage 8
Chemical branch 28
Child guidance 57, 120
Child helps 77
Child life protection 72
Child-minders 60
Child welfare 57
Chronic sick 27
Dangerous structures 24
Day nurseries 50, 60, 73
Deaths 8
Degenerative diseases 9
Dental hygienists 127
Dental services 123
Detergents 43
Diabetes 10, 120
Diarrhoea and enteritis 17
Digestive diseases 10
Diphtheria 17, 77
Disinfestation 24
Domestic help service 76
Domiciliary midwifery service 63
Dysentery 17
Emergency obstetric service 69
Enteric fevers 18
Enuresis 117
Epileptic children 117
Erysipelas 18
Expectant and nursing mothers 54
Family planning . . 57
Fertilisers and feeding stuffs 42
Fertility 6
Finance 129
Food poisoning 18
Foot defects 89
General Practitioners 59
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Handicapped children 111
Health centres 53
Health education 72, 92
Health visiting 72
Heart disease 8
Home nursing 74
Hornless families units 27
Hospital services 59
Housing 23
Hygiene inspection of school pupils 103
Illegitimacy 7
Immunisation 77
Improvement grants 24
Infant mortality 12
Infectious diseases 16
Infectious diseases in schools 22, 108
Insecticides 43
Influenza 18
Introduction 3
Leptospirosis 18
Marriage guidance 58
Mass miniature radiography 87
Maternal mortality 14
Meals for children 37, 102
Meals for invalids 27
Measles 19
Medical inspection of school children 100
Medical treatment of school children . . 109
Meningococcal infections 19
Mental health services 93
Midwifery service 63
Milk sampling 37
Mortality 8
Neo-natal mortality 12, 67
Nephritis 9
Night helps 77
Nurseries, day 50, 60, 73
Nurseries, residential 73
Nursing home registration 26
Occupation centres 53, 98
Ophthalmia neonatorum 19
Orthodontics 125
Pneumonia 12, 19
Poliomyelitis 19
Population 5
Premature babies 66
Premises 49
Prevention of illness 85
Public Health laboratory 24
Psychiatry 120
Puerperal pyrexia 14